Velocity Filter Limits?!?

cloudbreak wrote on 1/5/2004, 11:05 AM

Can you set the velocity filter any faster than 300%?

I have about 20 minutes of sunset video that I want to see over a really short period of time, and 300% isn't fast enough.

I know, I should have used the interval timer...but I didn't. Is there any way around this?

Thanks,
Marc

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 1/5/2004, 11:15 AM

You can also right click and adjust playback speed to 4.00, plus the velocity filter...gives you a nice little boost.

Jsnkc wrote on 1/5/2004, 11:16 AM

You can set it at 300, render it out as an uncompressed AVI, then import the clip back into Vegas and then set it at 300 again and render back out to an uncompressed AVI and keep doing that untill you get the clip as short as you want it. I know it's probably not the easiest way to do it, but I think Vegas only allows you to go at 300%.

cloudbreak wrote on 1/5/2004, 11:25 AM

Thanks much! I appreciate the help.

Marc

Chienworks wrote on 1/5/2004, 11:45 AM

You can do both velocity and playback speed combined to get 12x faster playback. Also, rendering to uncompressed isn't necessary. If you disable resampling then rendering to DV won't suffer any quality loss; every 12th frame will be bit-copied rather than rerendered.

I've used this method several times to compress 93 minutes (a full miniDV tape's worth) of sunset to 30 seconds. It takes three passes at 12x then one last pass at about 3x (trimming the ends a bit) to get the final 30 second length. Definately an impressive video experience to watch!